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Comment by mrandish

3 days ago

From a modern context, I think it's hard to appreciate that in 1981 it wasn't clear that a computer BIOS would be copyrightable. Franklin even won the initial court case.

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chasil  3 days ago

Compaq notably did this correctly.

https://wiki.softhistory.org/wiki/Compaq_BIOS

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